Exhibit At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris
January 29–May 4, 2014
Widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the nineteenth century, Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879) was commissioned by the city of Paris to document both the picturesque, medieval streets of old Paris and the broad boulevards and grand public structures that Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann built in their place for Emperor Napoleon III. This exhibition presents a selection of around one hundred of his photographs.
Sample Image: http://bit.ly/1kHgxlv
Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris). [Rue de Constantine], ca. 1865. Albumen silver print from glass negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986 (1986.1141)
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